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Gunbattle in Myanmar triggers fresh influx of refugees in Mizoram
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Amid media report of gunfight between Myanmar Army and People's Defence Force (PDF) triggering fresh influx of refugees from the neighbouring country, the Assam...
Eight Sri Lankan refugees reach Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu
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Eight refugees, including five children, from Sri Lanka reached the Indian coast at Tamil Nadu's Dhanushkodi in the early hours of Saturday.
Sources in the...
Myanmar unwilling to take back 1.20 million Rohingyas from Bangladesh
The Rohingya crisis is a humanitarian tragedy that has been unfolding in Myanmar for decades. Since August 2017, over a million Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar,...
Trouble simmers in Mizoram as Myanmar refugee numbers swell over 30K
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A small section of the 30,401 Myanmar nationals, who have taken shelter in Mizoram in different phases since the military junta seized power in...
Rohingya rally in B’desh to mark anniversary of mass exodus, demand safe return
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Thousands of Rohingya Muslims rallied in Bangladeshi refugee camps to demand justice for a crackdown carried out on them five years ago by the...
Karnataka retracts from its stand in SC on deportation of Rohingyas
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The Karnataka government has filed a revised affidavit in the Supreme Court, where it has retracted from its earlier affidavit stating that there is...
Give Sri Lankan Tamil refugees Bharatiya citizenship, says SL lawmaker
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Sri Lankan Tamil MP V.S. Radhakrishnan on Sunday called upon Tamil Nadu and the Bharatiya governments to accord Bharatiya citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil...
With fresh influx, refugees from Myanmar to Mizoram go up to 11K
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With the fresh influx of refugees from Myanmar, the number of people taking shelter in Mizoram after the military coup hit the neighbouring country...
Over 250 Afghan Sikhs, Hindus want safe passage to West, not Bharat
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More than 250 Afghans belonging to a minority communities of Sikh and Hindu, who have connections in Bharat, have been holed up in a...
Iran closes border with Afghanistan after refugee influx
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Iran has announced the closure of its key border crossing with Afghanistan's Nimroz province after the Taliban took over four provinces in the war-ravaged...